Solar Eclipse on July 22, 2009

I can’t remember when’s the last time I saw a solar eclipse. I think it was in my primary years that we were all excited to see the eclipse. We prepared a lot of things to be able to see the eclipse. According to the supersitious beliefs, you can’t directly look at the solar eclipse which we gladly believed. So we looked at the sun using negative films, sunglasses, etc. I think there’s a scientific explanation. No one can actually really look directly at the sun. And when you look at it directly, you won’t be able to see the eclipse. But when you use sunglasses, it will be very clear.

So yes, tomorrow, on Wednesday morning of July 22, 2009, there’s going to be a total solar eclipse.

The solar eclipse will be visible from a narrow corridor through northern India, eastern Nepal, northern Bangladesh, Bhutan, the northern tip of Myanmar, central China and the Pacific Ocean, including the Ryukyu Islands, Marshall Islands and Kiribati.

Totality will be visible in many large cities, including Surat, Vadodara, Bhopal, Varanasi, Patna, Dinajpur, Chengdu, Nanchong, Chongqing, Yichang, Jingzhou, Wuhan, Huanggang, Hefei, Hangzhou, Wuxi, Huzhou, Suzhou, Jiaxing, Ningbo and Shanghai, as well as over the Three Gorges Dam. According to some experts, Tareganain Bihar is the “best” place to view the event.

A partial eclipse will be seen from the much broader path of the Moon’s penumbra, including most of South East Asia (all of India and China) and north-eastern Oceania.